Former NFL star Greg Jennings is tuning education programs over to the Kalamazoo Community Foundation. A state board considers whether two proposals will get on the ballot, including one to legalize marijuana. Flint's mayor says a lawsuit against the state could happen soon.
Former NFL star and Kalamazoo native Greg Jennings is turning over his nonprofit education programs to the Kalamazoo Community Foundation. It will take over the Greg Jennings Foundation. It has donated more than $100,000 to education programs in Kalamazoo and Minneapolis over the last ten years. Jennings and his wife Nicole decided last year to dissolve their charity and move its assets to KCF. Jennings played football for Kalamazoo Central High School and Western Michigan University. He was a wide receiver with Green Bay when the team won the 2010 Super Bowl. He's now a football analyst on FOX Sports.
Supporters of recreational marijuana laws are hoping the State Board of Canvassers will agree to put a proposal to legalize pot on the November ballot. The board meets in Lansing today. The ballot initiative not only approves recreational use of cannabis but also stipulates where revenue from taxes could be used and changes the penalties for possession infractions. The board will also consider a proposal regarding prevailing wages.
The Legislature opened hearings Wednesday on plans to make schools safer from guns and violence. It’s the first actions in Lansing since the school shooting in Parkland-Florida. But there’s little agreement on what to do. Plans to put metal detectors in schools and issue public grades for schools based on safety have drawn criticism from educators and law enforcement officials. A state Senate committee has approved $18 million for grants to help make schools more secure. House and the Senate leaders want to have a school safety package approved before the Legislature’s summer break in July.
It’s the four year anniversary of the start of the Flint water crisis – And the people of Flint don’t want state lawmakers to forget about their city. About 100 Flint residents rallied in downtown Lansing Wednesday. They still don’t trust their drinking water. But Governor Rick Snyder stopped bottled water distribution there this month. Yesterday the state House denied a request to include money for bottled water for people in Flint who can’t leave their homes in its spending plan.
Flint Mayor Karen Weaver says a possible lawsuit is still in the works against Governor Rick Snyder’s administration following the end of free bottled water in the city. Weaver says she plans to meet with attorneys as soon as Friday. (WKAR)
For the second time this month there’s been a large sewage spill in Battle Creek. About a thousand gallons of sewage was spilled Wednesday by a truck cleaning sewer lines. The Battle Creek Enquirer says the spill was contained at the Waste Water Treatment Plant on River Road, and did not affect any surface water. On April fourth the same truck spilled about 12-hundred gallons of sewage into a retention pond.